Effective - 28 Aug 1983
451.115. Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty. — Every person who shall solemnize any marriage, having knowledge of any fact which renders such marriage unlawful or criminal in either of the parties under any law of this state, or, having knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that either of the parties shall be under the age of legal consent, or is prohibited by section 451.020 from entering into such marriage, or where to his knowledge, any other legal impediment exists to such marriage, and every person not authorized by law to solemnize marriages who shall falsely represent that he is so authorized, and who, by any pretended marriage ceremony which he may perform, shall deceive any innocent person or persons into the belief that they have been legally married, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 4652, A.L. 1982 S.B. 785, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 4264; 1919 § 3514; 1909 § 4728
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXX - Domestic Relations
Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women
Section 451.010 - Marriage a civil contract.
Section 451.022 - Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.
Section 451.030 - Bigamous marriage void.
Section 451.080 - Recorder to issue license — form of.
Section 451.100 - Marriages solemnized by whom.
Section 451.110 - Certificate of marriage to be given.
Section 451.115 - Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty.
Section 451.130 - Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
Section 451.150 - Licenses to be recorded — fee.
Section 451.160 - Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
Section 451.170 - Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
Section 451.180 - New certificate obtained, how.
Section 451.190 - Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
Section 451.200 - Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee.
Section 451.210 - Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.
Section 451.220 - Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
Section 451.230 - How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.
Section 451.240 - Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
Section 451.270 - Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.